Digitalization in Africa: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Technology, Development, and Justice

Schelenz, Laura; Schopp, Kerstin

doi:10.20533/ijds.2040.2570.2018.0175

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“…Most are also illiterate in English, which is critical because most security product information is only in English [8]. In addition, basic requirements such as housing, food, health, and education frequently take precedence over the adoption of ICT [27].…”

Section: Cyber Security Challenges In Africamentioning

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Cyber4Dev Security Culture Model for African Countries

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Veiga

2022

IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology

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Creating a good information security culture among employees within organizations is the cornerstone for a safe and robust cyberspace. Furthermore, a strong information security culture within organizations will assist in reducing the effects of human habits that lead to data breaches. This article seeks to conduct a scoping review of the scholarly literature on Cyber Resilience for Development (Cyber4Dev) security culture within the context of African countries. With limited scholarly articles available for Cyber4Dev, the review will focus on information security culture to adapt it to a Cyber4Dev security culture that organizations in Africa can replicate. Using the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA) for the scoping review, this paper analysed 40 scholarly articles on information security culture to propose a Cyber4Dev security culture model for organizations applicable within an African context. Economic, social-culture and trust were identified as some of the factors to consider in an African context to promote an information security culture. Organisations can consider these factors as part of their information security programs. The model serves as reference for further research to explore the influence of the identified factors in an African context.

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Section: Cyber Security Challenges In Africamentioning

confidence: 99%

Cyber4Dev Security Culture Model for African Countries

Reppoh

Veiga

2022

IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology

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“…While it has garnered burgeoning attention and become a global buzzword (Mentsiev et al 2020 Youngjin Yoo clarifies that when digitisation leads to a reconfiguration of underlying socio-technical relationship between producers and users, we call it digitalisation (Yoo 2010:7). Laura Schelenz and Kerstin Schopp concurringly find digitalisation advancing the value of information and the communication through ICT (Schelenz & Schopp 2018:1413. Historically, digitalisation is traced back to the 1950s alongside developments of computers as the action or process of digitising, the conversion of analogue data (expressly in later use of images, videos and text) into digital forms (Schumacher, Sihn & Erol 2016:1).…”

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The ministry of presence in absence: Pastoring online in Zimbabwe during the COVID-19 pandemic

Tagwirei

2022

HTS Teologiese Studies / Theological Studies

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Since time immemorial, pastoral ministry has been physically present in church buildings, homes and public places, providing face-to-face care and reassurance of God’s love and accompaniment. The tragic outbreak and speedy spread of COVID-19 from China triggered unprecedented challenges, dramatically led to restrictive national lockdowns, closure of physical meetings, fundamentally unsettled routine ways of doing ministry and demanded total digitalisation of the gospel, which eventually rendered the ministry of physical presence absent. While doing ministry online seemed to have been working well in other countries, it has been a uniquely different trajectory in Zimbabwe predominantly because of financial, material, human incapacitation as well as cultural and other contextual factors. Scholarly research on online pastoral praxis in Zimbabwe is scanty. Applying Osmer’s methodology, this study reviewed lived experiences and challenges of pastors in ministering virtually since the beginning of lockdowns early 2020 hitherto late 2021. It interrogated the ministry of presence and understanding of digitalisation. Amidst a plethora of social, political and economic drawbacks, this article unearthed erratic capability, affordability, availability, connectivity and feasibility of digitalised shepherding. Taking physical presence as incarnation of the triune God, demonstration of love, care and accompaniment as indispensable in pastoral ministry, this article stressed the significance of physical presence. However, considering the prevailing COVID-19 and contextual constrictions, it recommended that pastors should appreciate and submit their congregants to the ubiquitous and indispensable spiritual presence of God while redoubling efforts in ministering through contextually feasible ways until lockdowns end.Contribution: This article provides a critical biblical and scholarly review and analysis of the ministry of presence during the COVID-19 pandemic in Zimbabwe. This will provoke pastors, churches and church bodies to rethink and reconsider progressive strategies towards contextually effective pastoral theology, ministry and ecclesiology in times of pandemics in the context of economic volatility.

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“…pation and self-determination should be at the core of technological innovation. Ethical concerns about digitalization in Africa include (1) the fear of digital colonialism through value-laden technology, (2) the violation of privacy and its implications for societies and individual identities, and (3) the exclusion of marginalized populations as well as the neglect of environmental protection (Schelenz and Schopp 2018).…”

Section: Ethical Questions Of Digitalization In Africamentioning

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Ethical questions of digitalization in the Global South

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Digitalization and information and communications technology (ICT) influence and transform the world economy, our everyday life, politics, and our way of communicating. This entails opportunities and benefits as well as risks, challenges, and difficulties for all actors involved. Especially in the African context, but also in other countries of the Global South, there are important questions and aspects of digitalization which have to be addressed by technology assessment (TA) from an ethical point of view: questions of unequal power relations, neo-colonialism, (digital) illiteracy and language barriers, general barriers to access, and the gender digital divide. To broaden the perspectives of TA in global contexts, these issues should be discussed by different scientific disciplines, equally considering the positions of those affected. The inter- and transdisciplinary approaches in this TATuP special topic make a much-needed contribution to TA of digitalization in a global context.

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Digitalization in Africa: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Technology, Development, and Justice

Cited by 24 publications

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Cyber4Dev Security Culture Model for African Countries

Cyber4Dev Security Culture Model for African Countries

The ministry of presence in absence: Pastoring online in Zimbabwe during the COVID-19 pandemic

Ethical questions of digitalization in the Global South

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